And we can’t blame him for feeling a little threatened as he spent time feeding the big cats their lunch; pieces of meat skewered onto a wooden stick.

The pride led by mane male Hugo, mate Luna and their four cubs, Sola, Zahra, Alika, and Ebele, moved to West Wales in July following completion of a £500,000 project to build a purpose-built, state-of-the-art two-acre enclosure for the lions at Folly Farm.

Their new home is made up of four dens/bedrooms with visitors able to see the pride through large glass viewing windows and from three vantage points surrounding the outside enclosure.